"We're more Ceefax people."

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So once again we get to the point where there's only the final two-parter of Being Human left, and it all seems to have rushed past very quickly. Before then, "Puppy Love" by John Jackson, directed by Daniel O'Hara.

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The Titanic was a call back; when they thought George's dad was a ghost, it was one of the things he'd never done.

My problem over the last few episodes is it's become a bit "Guest Star of the Week". A character arrives, stirs things up a bit, then leaves and all returns to the status quo. It's a bit of a hark back to those couple of episodes in Series 2 where you could tell they'd expected a six part commission, not eight, so they padded. It's all going on, there's fun times and all, but if you dropped this episode completely would it have mattered?

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I think it's always been a bit guest-star-of-the-week (even Series 1 had the Tully episode, the little-boy-vampire episode, and of course Gilbert, who was only ever in one episode but I still sometimes think is more popular than some of the regulars) so I don't mind that too much. I think it manages to strike a good balance between standalone stories and gently pushing the arc forwards. I like a series with a strong arc but I'm wary of it becoming the be-all and end-all; my overwhelming memory of Angel Seasons 3 and 4 is that they were a single 44-hour-long scene in an alley.

I am, however, starting to wonder just how slow that damn boat Mark Gatiss is on can be if he still hasn't arrived. They're supposed to be The Old Ones, is a plane ticket out of their budget?